Clean water makes good coffee. As basic as that sounds, that’s all it took for DOMA Coffee Roasting Company to come up with the design for its “GOOD COFFEE” blend, a mutually beneficial non-profit/business partnership between three regional Waterkeeper organizations (Spokane Riverkeeper, Lake Coeur d’Alene Waterkeeper and Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper). All three organizations are […]
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For the past 20 years, this mountain town nestled in the lush and rugged Selkirk Mountains has been holding a festival in honor of an avid cyclist who helped shape the mountain bike community it thrives on. Cameron Alexander was a pioneer of epic, gnarly mountain biking, and his love of the sport helped inspire
Stand up paddleboarding – also known as SUP – is a pretty beginner-friendly sport, but there are still plenty of tricks that can help you paddle more efficiently and have more fun. I rented a paddleboard for the first time in Hawaii a few years back, and with years of surfing experience, I figured the
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When a friend asked me to take a few days off to race the Kootenay Sufferfest mountain bike race, I laughed at him. Suffering should be something you get paid to do, not something you pay for, I thought. It turns out I was dead wrong. After some convincing on his part, I found myself
Kootenay SufferFest — A Little Bit of Suffering & a Whole Lot of Fun (Sept. 5-7, 2015) Read More »
A well-known local hiker and trail maintenance project leader, Lynn Smith, ends his emails to other trail maintenance volunteers with these words: “Days spent on a trail are not deducted from one’s lifetime.” Another Spokane Mountaineers member and volunteer coordinator for Washington Trails Association, Holly Weiler, is famous among many U.S. Forest Service and state
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The young man is securely strapped into his seat. He bobs in the water as the boat slowly moves forward to take the slack out of the line. He braces slightly as he’s tugged forward, the tips of his main ski and the outrigger boards on either side poking up out of the water. He
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I bought my first stand up paddleboard about six years ago when the sport was really starting to take off. Knowing what I know now about stand up paddleboarding, or SUP, I spent an embarrassingly small amount of money on that first board that I hauled out of Costco. I remember thinking at the time
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Summer is here, school is out and bicycles seem to be everywhere. How comfortable are you or your children with riding a bike in traffic? Are you fearful of riding on the roadways? Maybe you feel ok riding on the road but aren’t all that sure that you are following the safest practices? I’m familiar
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Back before the Internet, it was more difficult to break out into new outdoor sports than it is today, especially technical ones like climbing that usually require someone to show you the ropes. The local outdoors community coalesced around clubs like the Spokane Mountaineers and Spokane Canoe and Kayak Club, where people who were into
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I consider myself a pretty strong rider. But, despite their best efforts, the trio of Canadian cyclists who have volunteered to show me the highlights of road biking in the West Kootenay region of southern B.C. area are casually kicking my ass. The small alpine community of Rossland is one of the highest-elevation towns in
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